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Smoking and oat cell cancer

Does smoking cause oat cell cancer?

Oat cell is another name for small cell lung cancer. About 18 out of 100 lung cancers (18%) are this type. It is one of the types most likely to be caused by smoking. About 90 out of 100 small cell lung cancers (90%) are caused by tobacco. There is detailed information about the causes of lung cancer in our lung cancer section.

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